My poster session for HighEdWeb 2017.

1. Why accept more than
First & Last in web forms?
“My name isn’t
Firstname, Lastname!”

2. Who’s left out by First, Last?
• People with one name:
Madonna, Cher, MegaZone
• People with middle initial or name:
James Earl Jones, Melissa Sue Anderson,
George W. Bush, Mark H. Anbinder
• People from other cultures:
Kim Jong Un, Andres Manuel López Obrador

3. • People with similar names:
John Adams, John Quincy Adams
• People with four-part names:
Dolly Rebecca Rose O’Connell,
Charlie Tamara Tulip O’Connell,
Nguyen Ngoc Kim Khoi
• People with honorifics or suffixes:
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. How’dwegethere?
•Well-meaningeffortsto
wanttoautomatically
say“DearJohn,”or
“GreetingstotheSmith
family.”
•Lackofcultural
awarenessmakingit
seemlessofaproblem
thanitis
•Tendencytomimicother
people’swebdesigns

5. What’sthesolution?
•Askforpeople’sfull
namesthewaythey
prefertoprovidethem.
•That’sit.
MarkH.Anbinder
CornellUniversity
@mhaithaca

6. Whatifwewanted...
•“DearJohn”?Doesn’t
workforothercultures’
namesanyway.
•Existingwebtemplates?
Worthfixing.
•Olddatabaseschemas?
Youwantedtoditchthat
2010backendanyway!